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Contending Issues in African Development Advances, Challenges, and the Future
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Obioma M. Iheduru, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-30961-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30961-8
350 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/2001
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Taking a forward-looking approach, this book critically examines the issues and dynamics central to Africa's problematic development and situates these issues within the contents unique cultural, political, economic, and social milieu. Moving away from a simple litany of problems bedeviling Africa's economy, the book is the culmination of several scholars' efforts to identify specific causative factors. Each chapter delineates a specific issue, demonstrates the role it plays in overall development, and speculates on probable ways to meet the challenges it poses. The major conceptual and epistemological constructs considered include the tamed African State, social capacity, management of change, reconceptualized gender roles, and economic integration.

Although the contributors' various approaches diverge and disagree, the epistemological variations contribute cumulatively to an understanding of the issues at the root of Africa's slow pace of development. While traversing the spectrum of issues that affect development, the book uniquely points out that the management of change is pivotal to fostering development. The authors' efforts provide a useful base for future research and help to chart a course of action leading to success in the 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    Conflicts and Convergence in African Development Thinking by Obioma M. Iheduru
    Bring Back the State: From Instability to Consolidation
    The Political Economy of State Reconstitution in Africa by Kelechi A. Kalu
    The Mass Media and Political Stability in Africa: A Utilitarian Theory Approach by Kingsley O. Harbor
    Africa Between the Meiji Restoration and the Legacy of Ataturk: Comparative Dilemmas of Modernization by Ali A. Mazrui
    Building Social Capacity: Civil Society, Democratization, and Human Rights
    Civil Society and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa by Julius E. Nyangóro
    The State and Human Rights in Africa by Julius O. Ihonvbere
    Democratization In Sub Saharan Africa: Problems, Advances, and Prospects by Harold A. Fisher
    Prolegomena to an African-Western Ethics and Theory of Rights by Vincent J. Ferrara
    Political Economy and the Management of Change
    Towards Democracy and Security in Africa: What Prospects for Sustainable Development of Civil Societies by Timothy M. Shaw and Sandra J. MacClean
    Nigeria: The Dynamics of Agricultural Policy in a Restructuring Economy by Browne Onuoha
    Women and Sustainable Development in Africa by April A. Gordon
    Regional Integration and Sustainable Development
    Evaluation of the Present State of Economic Integration in Africa: How to Strengthen the African Economic Community by Aguibou Yansane Aguibou
    West African Regionalism Revisited: Cooperative management of the Gambia and Senegal Water Resources by Nurudeen B. Akinyemi
    The Politics of Regional Integration and Development in Africa: Issues, Limitations, and Prospects by Aja Akpuru-Aja
    Conclusion
    Redefining the African State: Political Capacity in the Post Reform Era by Obioma M. Iheduru
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: OBIOMA M. IHEDURU is Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-director of the Center for Social Science Research at Fort Valley State University./e He is the author of The Politics of Economic Restructuring and Democracy in Africa (Greenwood, 1999).
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